Shane, what a perfect beginner's project for you! It's simple, it's experimental, and it works with all your percussion stuff. I didn't even know you could bow a gong, I thought they were mainly for bashing. So you'll pick up some basic solder skills and have fun playing with the contact mics - what next?

I love bowls, bells and gongs, etc. LOVE Tibetan bowls..
Wondering how are you're "attacking" the gong?
Are you bowing the edge?

Your microphone project takes me back to Rebecca Mercuri's seminar at Pocono Skies,which opened my eyes and ears in a big way...

-this makes me wanna build something

Dan
Yes bowing the edge of the gong. If you have multiple edges in a gong you can get numerous tones. The edges of lots of things are bowable... I also have some scrap metal, cymbals, and old cymbals that all have their own peculiar sounds.

You can also stop the gong with your thumb or finger at different locations while bowing to, with some practice, extract specific pitches. I did a multitrack tape piece in 1975 called "Bronze Cloud Disk" that used just that technique. You can hear a short excerpt of it, from my Experimental Intermedia release called "The Thousand Shades of Blue", here:

Have you tried using two pickups on different parts of the cymbals for stereo?

I thought about that...but I haven't tried it yet. Yesterday I used the contact in conjunction with a condensor mic to get more of the high freqs. That worked out quite well.
Ill be doing some of that in Atmosphera tomorrow evening. _________________ ElectroCasa

Try bowing Vibes and a Marimba.
Hell...
Anything you can get an edge on that will vibrate.

I really love the sound of bowing metal.

I have a rig setup for just this noiz.

I radar dish to cymbals so i don't have to touch them when bowing.
I haven't seen anyone else do that and I don't know why they wouldn't have to begin with.
(I will need to ask my professor about that one.)

I attached a couple of pics.
One is my general rig of metallics.
The other is a noiz rig for a guest appearance with another project.

Try bowing Vibes and a Marimba.
Hell...
Anything you can get an edge on that will vibrate.

I really love the sound of bowing metal.

Indeed Spike... I have a collection of scrap metals and found sounds in addition to gongs and cymbals that Ive been bowing... as well as a vibraphone. I will be bowing vibes and metals in combination with synths on my show, Atmosphera here at radio.electro-music.com tomorrow evening at 6pm CST|00:00 GMT. Drop the chat and/or listen if you are around!

Indeed Spike... I have a collection of scrap metals and found sounds in addition to gongs and cymbals that Ive been bowing... as well as a vibraphone. I will be bowing vibes and metals in combination with synths on my show, Atmosphera here at [b][i][color=#255293][b][i][color=#255293]radio.electro-music.com[/color][/i][/b][/color][/i][/b] tomorrow evening at 6pm CST|00:00 GMT. Drop the chat and/or listen if you are around!

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